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COMMUNITIES

Protecting people includes our communities. In line with our wider materiality approach, we focus on where we can make the greatest difference at a local level. This means channelling our human and financial resources to support child nutrition, sustainable livelihoods, youth employability and consumer engagement in sustainability.

Child nutrition

We offer our partners practical support in implementing and evaluating school feeding programmes, while also advising on food safety, quality and the importance of fortified and nutritious beverages for children. We advise on carton reuse and recycling within schools.

Sustainable livelihoods

Our established Dairy Hub model is helping create sustainable value chains by building the capacity of smallholder farmers. We are also working with the World Wide Fund (WWF) for Nature to establish local forest owners’ associations and help smallholders create sustainable, profitable businesses.

Youth employability

Our Future Talent Programme creates meaningful opportunities for the next generation to build employability skills. In 2018 another 180 graduates have joined us around the world bringing the total number up to 350. Our Future Talent Programme combines on-the-job training with development in a range of competencies and all participants are offered a job with us upon completion.

Engaging consumers

We help end consumers make discerning purchasing choices and recycle their cartons. By working closely with our customers and consumer organisations, we have the potential to create change at a vast scale, including by creating socio-economic value through the use of our recycled cartons to make new products.

Donations and emergency relief

Tetra Pak contributes to specific appeals for support. For example, in 2017, in collaboration with customers, we shipped UHT milk to communities affected by hurricane Harvey in the U.S.A. We also helped our recycling partner in Kenya to set up the first Information and Communications Technology Centre in Kibera, Nairobi’s largest slum neighbourhood.